Thanks..great info. Will try and let all know. Best
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 3:12 AM onmstester onmstester <onmstes...@zoho.com> wrote: > create the ramdisk: > mount tmpfs /mnt/spark -t tmpfs -o size=2G > > then point spark.local.dir to the ramdisk, which depends on your > deployment strategy, for me it was through SparkConf object before passing > it to SparkContext: > conf.set("spark.local.dir","/mnt/spark") > > To validate that spark is actually using your ramdisk (by default it uses > /tmp), ls the ramdisk after running some jobs and you should see spark > directories (with date on directory name) on your ramdisk > > > Sent using Zoho Mail <https://www.zoho.com/mail/> > > > ---- On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:57:14 +0330 *☼ R Nair > <ravishankar.n...@gmail.com <ravishankar.n...@gmail.com>>* wrote ---- > > What are the steps to configure this? Thanks > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 9:39 AM onmstester onmstester < > onmstes...@zoho.com.invalid> wrote: > > > Hi, > I failed to config spark for in-memory shuffle so currently just > using linux memory mapped directory (tmpfs) as working directory of spark, > so everything is fast > > Sent using Zoho Mail <https://www.zoho.com/mail/> > > > >